Mystery of Flight 370 ... yet to wreak havoc

Published 5:07 pm, Friday, May 16, 2014

To the editor:

“Malaysian flight 370,” a flight into nowhere, and for nothing.

Malaysian flight 370, flight plan was northeast some 2,500 miles to Beijing China.

It took off from Kuala Lumpur, with enough fuel for the flight and 10-20 percent additional fuel for emergency. About 40 minutes after the flight took off, it was deviated from its flight plan, it made a 45-degree-plus turn, with a new heading, straight west. At this point, it is self-evident flight 370 is no longer under the control of its filed flight plan, pilot, copilot and crew. It is further self-evident when it has become hijacked. Flight 370 is now under the command of a new flight crew.

The plane now flies west back across Malaysia, where, just off the western side, all communication was turned off. This is the last communication, or data we have on the aircraft. Except for a ping every hour for the seven-hour flight, which gave only distance traveled each ping, but no direction.

At the point where flight 370 lost all communication, they had a choice of north, south. South would answer the nowhere, since it goes into open ocean and the polar ice caps. The flight officer would have to be a blithering idiot to fly south. To fly north would be a better choice, since there is a considerable area, scarcely populated, that a plane might land, relatively undetected.

In doing my research, I came across an article which will answer both questions, where and why. The article: On April 2, 1997, a Malaysia Airlines 200ER named “Super Ranger” broke the great circle “distance without landing” record for an airliner by flying east from Boeing Field, Seattle to Kuala Lumpur, a distance of 10,823 nautical miles in 21 hours and 23 minutes (The exact same plain of Flight 370). This answers why; and an article in the news media regarding a meeting of high-ranking officers of al-Qaeda had a meeting in Yemen; apparently no one knew about it, until after the fact. They thought the U.S. should have a drone to destroy the al-Qaeda members. One of the statements made by al-Qaeda at that meeting was in reference to the 9/11 disaster and a repeat of that. Based on this information, you can rest assured flight 370 stayed on its course west some 2,600 miles and landed in Yemen, or an alternative of northern scarcely populated coast of Somalia.

Why Malaysian Airlines? Think back before flight 370, there was nothing of interest in Malaysia; no economic incidents, no unrest, just complete silence. Therefore, flight 370 could be hijacked and it would be hours before it got in the news and plus the fact that Malaysia is not a very high-tech country, or one of need of elaborate security measures.

What was it hijacked for; it is self-evident that an aircraft with a flight capability of 11,000 miles, and load capability, a minimum of 14 tons, and solely in control of al-Qaeda, and considering that 14 tons could be high-tech explosive, and that was what it was hijacked for.

Based on this, and the statement by al-Qaeda of a repeat of 9/11, it makes the location of flight 370 paramount to the interests and security of the United States, and with the cooperation of other countries.

Ronald O Brown

Conroe

Thanks for trashing RLCs

To the editor:

A big thank you to the 59 percent of Conroe voters who said “Trash the red light cameras.” The remaining 41 percent also will enjoy the freedom of driving about town without a worry about the sneaky devices watching your driving. Thanks to positive-minded people.